What should I expect from the Starlet Series?

[Carla]

The first three novels, Starlet’s Web, Starlet’s Run, and Starlet’s Light, are fictitious memoirs that Liana Marie writes while recovering in the hospital. The reader will notice a maturity of narrative voice and awareness from each book in the series. The protagonist’s narrative self-reflection grows as she becomes more self-aware. Starlet's End is the fourth novel from Lia's point of view and the last novel of the series.

1. Published, 2nd Edition: Starlet’s Web (The Starlet Series #1) – Love. Betrayal. Acting. Hollywood entangles talented teen actress in a web of lies. A fast read with plot twists.

Liana Marie Michael writes her first memoir as she deals with the consequences of being a child actor. Find out what makes Lia an Oscar-winning actress as you think about your role in shaping the films you see and the social media in which you engage.

In Starlet’s Web, Liana Marie is torn between mixed-messages, mostly impacted by Hollywood’s focus on sex and being sexy. She talks in monologues and thinks in stories as do her industry-consumed peers. What is real is in question.

2. ARC edition, e-book: Starlet’s Run (The Starlet Series #2) – In a world where an actress is a product and everyone is a critic, can young love survive? Should it? A deeper read with character development.

In Lia’s second memoir see how she and Manuel cope with hardship while they look to others to make decisions for them, trapping themselves into indecision. Find out what it takes to be a star as Lia runs lines in both her acting and personal lives. Think about how the scripts you have memorized affect you in your daily life. Do you whine about pain or do you accept it and make the most out of anything positive?

In Starlet’s Run, Liana Marie is torn between youthfulness vs. maturity, health vs. sickness. She clings to the idea of marriage and security while the adults around her urge her to grow up first. She and Manuel both discover the good and bad in themselves and each other as they begin to speak for themselves rather than “run lines,” actor-lingo for practicing lines in a movie script.

3. ARC edition, e-book: Starlet’s Light (The Starlet Series #3) – Young Hollywood actress, Liana Marie Michael, is ‘so done’ with acting. She gives up the fight until she sees the light. An emotional read.

Lia’s final memoir reveals her struggle with the exploitation inherent in being an actress and her search for friendship and acceptance. Find out how a star lives on set and see the hard work put into making epic films.

In Starlet’s Light, Lia’s situation overwhelms her. She struggles through the 5 Stages of Grief: denial/isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance and, like most of us, makes a lot of ‘human’ mistakes in doing so. But she tells the truth as she copes, opening her heart to new possibilities.

4. Work in process: Starlet’s End (The Starlet Series #4) – The Hollywood elite are pointing fingers at those responsible for anti-aging drugs. Can justice be served? An exciting man-hunt adventure with a chilling ending. TBR 2014

The fourth novel, Starlet’s End, is an active first-person narrative and concludes Lia’s journey. It explores our society’s subtle acceptance of performance-enhancement drugs or plastic surgery as a justifiable means of competition. What is our individual role in the game is in question.

Explore what it means to judge and be judged. Is justice retaliation, blame, or responsibility? How can we change Hollywood’s obsession with youth, sex, and unhealthy, skeleton bodies (both the dead ones littering all action films and the actors who shoot them)?

The following works focus on other points of view:

5. Beta read on Wattpad: Starlet’s Man (The Starlet Series, #1.5) - Interested in how Hollywood culture influences teens in Santa Monica, California? The novella, Starlet’s Man, focuses on the intentions of secondary characters: Manny, Beth, Alan, Kate & Janet.

Join over 28,000 Wattpad readers engaged in drafts of Starlet’s Man.

6. Outline: Starlet’s Spider (The Starlet Series, #2.5) - Michelle’s memoir.

7. Work in process: Starlet’s Six (The Starlet Series, #3.5) – Interested in what it is like to jet-set around the world as an anonymous heir to billions? Read about Pierre, Evan, Amelie, and Sandrine in the novella, Starlet’s Six.

-Carla Hanna, author of the Starlet Series. Starlet's Web (The Starlet Series, #1) is available NOW. Starlet's Run (ARC, #2) and Starlet's Light (ARC, #3) are available as ebooks. Starlet's Man (draft, #1.5) is available on Wattpad.